Women leave their handprints on the cave wall
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 11:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Plaster handprints from kindergarten, handprint turkeys, handprints outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood -- are all part of modern life, but ancient people also left their handprints on rocks and cave walls. Now, an anthropologist can determine the sex of some of the people who left their prints, and the majority of them were women.